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Collector's Journal — Edwardian Art

Philip H. Rideout’s Going to Fair — Edwardian Coaching, Sporting Art and the British Road in 1908

• 19th Century Art • 20th Century Art • Antique Oil Paintings • Antique Paintings • Art Collecting • British Art • British Oil Paintings • British Paintings • Carriage Paintings • Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD • Coaching Scenes • Collectors Journal • Country Life Paintings • Edwardian Art • Edwardian Paintings • Equestrian Art • Fine Art • Genre Painting • Horse and Carriage • Horse Paintings • Philip H Rideout • Philip Rideout • Rural British Art • Sporting Art • Traditional British Art

Philip H. Rideout’s Going to Fair — Edwardian Coaching, Sporting Art and the British Road in 1908

A closer look at Philip H. Rideout’s signed 1908 oil painting Going to Fair, exploring its spirited horse-drawn carriage, Edwardian country setting, documented auction provenance and important comparisons with Rideout’s established coaching oeuvre.

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William Taylor Longmire and Windermere: A 1903 View Towards the Langdale Pikes

• Antique Watercolour • British Landscape Painting • British Watercolours • Cheshire Antiques Consultant LTD® • Collectors Journal • Cumbria • Edwardian Art • Fine Art • Lake District Paintings • Langdale Pikes • Orrest Head • William Taylor Longmire • Windermere

William Taylor Longmire and Windermere: A 1903 View Towards the Langdale Pikes

A closer look at William Taylor Longmire's signed 1903 watercolour of Windermere, exploring its Lake District setting, possible Orrest Head viewpoint and the distant landscape considered to include the Langdale Pikes.

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J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

• Art Research • British Animal Painting • British Dog Art • Collectors Journal • Colonel Peter Fishbourne • Dog Portrait • Earls Colne • Edwardian Art • Edwardian Britain • English Countryside • Essex • Greyhound • J. Warnes • Lime House • Lurcher • Lurcher Painting • Lurcher Portrait • Provenance Research • Rowney & Co • Samuel John Carter • Sporting Art • Sporting Painting • Victorian Sporting Art • Working Dogs

J. Warnes: The Lurcher and the English Countryside

A sensitive circa 1910 portrait of a lurcher by British artist J. Warnes places a working dog within the English countryside, offering an evocative glimpse into Edwardian rural life and the tradition of British sporting and animal painting.

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James Gordon (1824–1901): Rediscovering a Portrait by Alice Gates

• Alice Gates • Art Attribution • Art Research • British Art • British Sculpture • Bronze Portrait • Collectors Journal • Edwardian Art • Edwardian Sculpture • James Gordon • Liverpool Art • Memorial Sculpture • Portrait Relief • Provenance Research • Walker Art Gallery • Women Sculptors

James Gordon (1824–1901): Rediscovering a Portrait by Alice Gates

An indistinct signature on an early Edwardian bronze portrait of James Gordon (1824–1901) led to an intriguing discovery: sculptor Alice Gates exhibited The late James Gordon, Esq. at Liverpool’s Walker Art Gallery in 1902, providing compelling evidence for the portrait’s newly researched attribution.

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